English Dictionary

painful

/ˈpeɪn.fəl/

adj

Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. / Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person). / Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.

The injury was so painful that he couldn't walk.

意味（1）

Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.

意味（2）

Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).

意味（3）

Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.

意味（4）

(now rare) Painstaking; careful; industrious.

The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle.

意味（5）

(informal) Very bad, poor.

His violin playing is painful.